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FHA Honors Farm
Family of the Year
The Verl M. Buxton family of
Cache county, Utah, were
honored recently in Washington,
D. C., as the national Farmers
Home Administration (FHA)
Farm Family of the Year,
Secretary of Agriculture Earl L
Butz announced.
Mr. Buxton, his wife, Helen,
and three of their five children-
Dale, 13, Mark, 17, and Carol, 20-
toured the nation’s capitol as
winners of the year-long com
petition conducted by the Far
mers Home Administration, the
rural credit service of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Beginning with hundreds of farm
families all across the country,
competition was narrowed to 38
state winners, then to five
national finalists, and finally to
the dairy family from Utah.
The Buxtons early displayed
the characteristics that would
bring them success as farmers.
Starting practically from zero,
Verl went to school to learn
carpentry. He got a job in con
struction and after his day’s
work, he built a house of his own.
He borrowed a little and built a
little, borrowed and built,
borrowed and built, and when he
finished, he had enough equity in
his house to trade for a farm in
Cache County.
He was able to get 70 acres, but
the land was considered wor-
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thless by established farmers in
the area. The Buxtons took the
land, and through shrewd money
management, good farming
practices, and diligent work, they
increased their net worth from
$24,000 in 1954 to more than
$269,000 in 1972.
Since Farmers Home Ad
ministration is not competitive
with private lenders, its purpose
is to help farmers who cannot
qualify for commercial credit.
The aim of the program is not to
find the biggest or richest far
mer, but to identify the family
which has done the most with its
resources. Family life and the
contribution of family members
to community life are carefully
considered in judging.
A panel of seven nationally
prominent judges made the
national selection. The judges
were: Millard F. Dailey,
chairman, Federal Farm Credit
Board; Russell E. Hibbard,
president, National Association
of County Agricultural Agents;
Russell Pierson, president.
National Association of Farm
Broadcasters; Pat Dußois,
chairman, Agricultural-Rural
America Committee, In
dependent Bankers Association
of America; Claudette N.
Simoneaux, past president.
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Teachers; Thomas R. Smith,
chairman, Agricultural and
Community Bankers Division,
American Bankers Association,
and Alan T. Busby, a retired
professor of Animal Husbandry,
Lincoln University, Jefferson
City, Md.
State winning farm families
receive a plaque, and the national
winner an expense-paid trip to
Washington, D.C.
In building up their farm, the
Buxtons had one guiding role:
Before you get bigger, get better.
The judges decided they had done
both.
U.S. Plane Firms
Demonstrate Wares
At Paris Air Show
Seventy-seven manufac
turers from 23 states and the
District of Columbia dis
played their products in the
United States pavilion in
Paris at the 30th Paris Air
Show.
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R.-
Ariz.) was President Nixon’s
personal representative at
the show. In requesting the
Senator to attend, the Presi
dent said, “Indeed, our for
eign sales of aircraft have
been by far the most dynamic
element in our export expan
sion in recent years. While
our overall trade balance slid
by $l2 billion between 1965
and 1972, our trade balance
in aircraft sales grew by $2
billion.”
The U. S. exhibit was dedi
cated to the theme, “Man in
Flight: From Kitty Hawk to
the Planets.” It commemo
rated the 70th anniversary of
the Wright Brothers’ first
flight and celebrated modern
America’s aerospace achieve
ments.
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Turkey Sales Reach
Half Billion Dollars
Marketing changes which
helped make turkey an everyday
food rather than just a holiday
treat aided in increasing far
mers’ cash receipts from turkeys
to $537 million in 1972 from $59
million in 1935, according to a
study issued last week by the U .S.
Department of Agriculture.
Increased use of turkey in
processed items, expanded
marketing of turkey parts and a
shift to producing smaller
turkeys helped raise per capita
consumption from 1.7 pounds in
1935 to 9.1 pounds in 1972, the
Economic Research Service
report noted.
In 1972 over 35 percent of all
marketed turkey meat was used
in items like turkey rolls and TV
dinners. By 1980, the study said,
turkeys going into such further
processed items could account
for 45 percent of the slaughter.
The turkey industry has
become more coordinated.
Estimates for 1970 show 42
percent of the turkeys were
produced under contract as
opposed to some 30 percent in
1960. Probably another 12 percent
of the 1970 birds were grown
under owner-integrated facilities
and 18 percent were sold under
marketing contracts. The
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Southern areas have depended
heavily on contract growing for
their expansion.
Since the early 1960’s the South
Atlantic and South Central
regions have increased their
share of total production, with the
West North Central region
declining slightly and the
Western and East North Central
regions decreasing further.
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Care for Trees
When Changing
Landscape Grade
Slight increases in ground
levels do not harm most trees,
says J. Robert Nuss, Extension
ornamental horticulturist at The
Pennsylvania State University.
If only about 4 inches of fill is
required, a tree well is not
usually necessary. When the
situation is reversed and the soil
is to be lowered, retaining walls
built around desirable trees will
save them.
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